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Buddhists and Taoist have belieff systems, just not an overlay of a god to beleive in (Buddhists are actually agnostic on gods -
god is simply not germane to the Path, in any fashion)

You're making my point, atheist is used as a catch all. Atheism isn't a religion, but there are several religions that would be considered atheist. While I agree somewhat with Buddhist, many Taoists believe in different things, as it is more of a philosophy. I know Taoist Christians and Taoist Buddhists, however they are rare. You could also argue that Taoist believe in a god, he just doesn't have a human/man form.

I know there are active atheist movements, but I would also say that many people who we would define sa atheists would not agree with what they are doing.

You're making my point, atheist is used as a catch all. Atheism isn't a religion, but there are several religions that would be considered atheist. While I agree somewhat with Buddhist, many Taoists believe in different things, as it is more of a philosophy. I know Taoist Christians and Taoist Buddhists, however they are rare. You could also argue that Taoist believe in a god, he just doesn't have a human/man form.

I know there are active atheist movements, but I would also say that many people who we would define sa atheists would not agree with what they are doing.

Yes there are even Christian Buddhists -rare, but it's not required you DON"T beleive in a god.
Al that is required is you folow the teaching of 4 Nobel Truths, and 8 fold noble path. At minimum.
Some choose to also believe in a god - what they call "keeping your birth religion"

Taoism, as I understood it was that man is simply another of the things in the universe.There is no omnipotent being beyond the cosmos, who created and controls the universe. In Taoism the universe springs from the Tao, and the Tao impersonally guides things on their way.

No. atheism is the rejection of a god,atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities.But one can still believe in secular humanism , for ex.
Agnostic means a god isn't important but not necessarily rejected or affirmed.

ag·nos·tic
1. a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience. Synonyms: disbeliever, nonbeliever, unbeliever; doubter, skeptic, secularist, empiricist; heathen, heretic, infidel, pagan.
2. a person who denies or doubts the possibility of ultimate knowledge in some area of study.
3. a person who holds neither of two opposing positions on a topic: Socrates was an agnostic on the subject of immortality